The intensified ICE enforcement after Miller's late May order renewed long-running concerns among farmers about ICE operations targeting their workforce. Nearly half the nation's approximately 2 million farm workers lack legal status, according to the departments of Labor and Agriculture, as do many dairy and meatpacking workers.

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) workplace raids increase, industries that heavily rely on migrant workers are left scrambling with how to respond to heightened tensions, confusion and fears from their employees.